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Diaspora Co-Founder Dead In Apparent Suicide

Diaspora Co-Founder Dead In Apparent Suicide

By Phil Villarreal 11.15.11

Last year, four NYU students got together to form Diaspora, a social network meant to value privacy in a way they said Facebook never intended to. Now one of the entrepreneurs has been found dead at age 22. [More]

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